more and more 403s for all downloads
To start, I have manually downloaded the newest version and run several times with -U, and it says I am up to date (stable@2026.03.17), but I keep getting 403. At first I was just seeing it with recent videos or major label music stuff, so I thought it might be a recent change they were propagating, but it seems to be affecting almost all videos now.
I've tried logging out and back into youtube and switching to an alternate account, but it doesn't seem to matter.
I'm pulling cookies from firefox, downloading video/audio separately and merging with ffmpeg, and using deno, but it still gives me a message that it is unable to download video data.
command in case it matters:
yt-dlp.exe --cookies-from-browser firefox --ffmpeg-location <path>\yt-dlp\ffmpeg-2024-09-02-git-3f9ca51015-full_build\bin\ --js-runtimes deno:<path>\.deno\bin -f "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best" <URL>
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
I'm not seeing complaints all over the place, so it must be something with me, but I have no clue what. Any ideas?